The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

We live in a world filled with slogans, declarations, and jargon beyond caring. It is pervasive and unsettlingly, particularly when directed at our younger generations. Sound bites have become sound bits have become momentary flashes and glimpses of a life into which people are rushing headlong without safely looking in both directions. The result is equivalent to a multi-car pile-up of no small proportion, each driver blaming adjacent drivers for the predicament they are in. The falsities are overwhelming. Current political environments do not foster the best in us. Instead, they enco...